Twenty local students participated in an April tour of historically black colleges and universities through No Opportunity Wasted.

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Barbara Bolton can easily sum up the spirit behind No Opportunity Wasted, the program she founded to encourage high school students to further their intellectual and personal development, face challenges and pursue higher education.

"It's hard to know where you're going if you don't know where you came from," Bolton said.

Bolton, a state employee; her husband Alvin, a lieutenant colonel in the Nevada Army National Guard; Ondra Berry, former Reno assistant chief of police and a colonel in the Nevada Air National Guard; and Berry's wife, Margo, are mentoring middle and high school students ...